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• Freddie Darling!

  
  Second Hand Shopper — Authority: 121
  I won a box of chocolates at work today for my customer service-ing! A lady came back to Waterstones and told my manager that she was buying the book from us even though Smiths had it cheaper because I’d been so helpful. Yay me! It did earn me a bit of “teachers pet” style ribbing, but that didn’t bother me ...
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• Classy.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 126
  Amaz*n extend the 12 days of Christmas. I mean, I know were all atheists now, but is this final proof that Jeff Bezos thinks hes God?  
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• “They’re the authors of their own destruction”

  
  CanCult.ca — Authority: 131
  Cory Doctorow talks to blogger and book lover Nigel Beale about the impending publishing apocalypse. Posted in bookselling/publishing, technology
  2 days ago

• Best of the "Best Books of 2009 Lists" List

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 631
  As the holiday season nears, this GalleyCat editor has vowed to only buy books for his loved ones and friends. If you are joining this crusade, you may need some ideas. The excellent literary and music blog Largehearted Boy is a great place to start--annually aggregating the Best Books of 2009 lists from around ...
  3 days ago

• booksellers! don’t digest the assets, man

  
  Baroque in Hackney — Authority: 512
  Oh God, here’s something I wanted to post a link to the other day, when my booksellers-stroke-Borders post was at the top. A brave and enterprising (and apparently 12-year-old) bookseller in the USA has bucked the trend and offered an anti -discount to start the XMas shopping season. …Many booksellers’ ...
  3 days ago

• Bookshopping

  
  adambowie.com — Authority: 492
  Sadly one of the few remaining book chains in the UK has gone into receivership, and it seems well shortly be seeing the end of Borders. Im immensely saddened by this. Few things make me as happy as wandering into a bookshop for a bit of a mooch around. Im lucky. I work in the centre of London, and can go to the ...
  5 days ago

• Stan the window cleaner comes in with his bill.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 126
  The whole book markets gone crash aint it, Jonathan? Something like that Stan, I say. I was just hearing about that big place up west, where you could get a coffee and a cake and all that. I hand him a twenty-pound note. But youre the exception to the rule then, Jonathan, are you? Something like that Stan , I ...
  5 days ago

• 36 Employees Cut at Borders UK

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 631
  During the Thanksgiving holiday, Borders UK entered administration , appointing the insolvency and restructuring company MCR to handle the companys next actions--creating an uncertain future for 1,150 workers at 45 different stores. So far, 36 employees have reportedly been cut. The Bookseller spoke with an ...
  5 days ago

• Some half-formed thoughts on one future for bookselling

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 882
  Clay Shirkys essay on the past and future of bookselling is provocative. I think he really nails something with his taxonomy of the reasons that people worry about bookstores, but Im not sure I buy his conclusion -- that bookselling might be best served on an NPR/nonprofit model. In my experience, people make this ...
  5 days ago

• Cyber Monday Drives Amazon Stock to Record Heights

  
  mediabistro.com: GalleyCat — Authority: 631
  As Internet users flocked to Amazon.com (AMZN) on Cyber Monday (the web-based alternative to Black Friday shopping), the stock price at the online bookseller has jumped dramatically. UPDATE: As of 4 p.m., the stock price sat at $135.91 . According to CNN Money , the stock hit a record high today: "One of the ...
  6 days ago

• Last Day in November

  
  Books in Northport — Authority: 422
  (Last day of firearm deer season, too.) Where did it go? Where they all go, but it was a good month in northern Michigan, with mild temperatures and lots of sunny days that made life easier than it could otherwise have been and gave us lots of reasons to greet each other with “Beautiful Day!” “Gorgeous!” Now ...
  6 days ago

• Event: Saturday 5th December 5pm. Bob Marley the Untold Story. Chris Salewicz.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 126
  Lively up Yourself! Join us at 5pm on December 5th, for an early Christmas drink, some music and a reading by author Chris Salewicz from his book Bob Marley the Untold Story.
  6 days ago

• 50 Things Publishers Shouldn’t Do

  
  The Nervous Breakdown — Authority: 562
  Weve had so much fun with the 50 Things Writers Shouldnt Do post (currently up to roughly a gazillion things writers shouldnt do), that we decided to turn the tables, and solicit your help in creating a list of things publishers shouldnt do, including:-Don’t get afraid if writers decide to talk to their fans and ...
  6 days ago

• The popularity of e-books surprised everyone

  
  CanCult.ca — Authority: 131
  The Post’s Mark Medley talks to the president of Shortcovers, Michael Serbinis, to discuss all things e-readerish.   Q: What’s surprised you the most about the past nine months? What have been the biggest challenges? A: There’s an unscratched itch that is now being scratched by just how convenient it is ...
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• The horror, the (Kindle) horror….

  
  CanCult.ca — Authority: 131
  The Post’s Mark Medley borrows a Kindle and makes the publishing rounds with it . Reactions are mixed.   Later in the day, I dropped by my favourite bookstore, second-hand or otherwise, Eliot’s on Yonge Street, three floors of dusty books, with shelves so high you need a ladder to reach the top. Owner Paul ...
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• Julie Myerson can just fuck off, then.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 126
  I buy all books on Amaz*n now because of the huge price difference. But I still use bookshops as places to go to first - to remind me of whats out there and to look at and touch the books. Quoted in a sidebar to this article in todays Observer. [And I say that as someone who has both personally sold her plenty ...
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• So thats the weeks profits right there, then.

  
  The Bedside Crow — Authority: 126
  Bugger. Left the fan heater on overnight. Lovely and toasty warm, but it must have cost a couple of quid.  
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• Coming up on Vulpes Libris

  
  Vulpes Libris — Authority: 469
  As Vulpes Libris heads into December, we’re all about great stories for an evening by the fire.  We have not one but two inheritance mysteries, a time travelling tsar and a lyrical love story.  Plus, Bookfox Jackie gives us her views on bookstores, and Kirsty talks to Michael Ng in the latest Interview with a Fox. ...
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• Self-Publishing Sales Statistics Clarified

  
  How Publishing Really Works — Authority: 514
  When I appeared on The Write Lines last week I mentioned that the average self-published book sells between forty and two hundred copies, depending on which set of figures you consult. Compared to mainstream publishing, where sales of three thousand copies for commercial fiction are considered by some to be ...
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• Todays the Day!

  
  Books in Northport — Authority: 422
  The sun was already high and bright when Sarah and I went to run around Peterson Park before picking up the mail, buying a new string of tree lights, picking up more reception supplies and opening the bookstore.. In town the sky was bluer than blue, the air warm and balmy, people shedding layers, having put on my ...
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